34-year-old wife checks 37-year-old husband's dashcam footage, discovers he dumped their "missing" 13-year-old dog: '[He] drove off without her'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 16, 2024 8:00 AM EST

If he tries to dump your dog, you better dump him back! As Liz Lemon would say, "That's a dealbreaker, ladies!" 

This wife was out of town with her 7-year-old daughter while her husband stayed at home to take care of their 13-year-old dog, Ellie. Ellie was old and slow; in other words, she wasn't the kind of dog to just run away. This is why the wife became immediately suspicious when her husband called them to report that Ellie had run off. 

When she and her daughter returned home, the wife became even more concerned when she saw that her husband seemed pretty over their dog's disappearance. So when he was out one night, she investigated by looking at videos from the dashcam footage of his car on the days they were gone. It turns out he drove Ellie out of state, pulled over near a farm, and threw a frisbee for her to retrieve only to drive off. Thankfully, this story has a happy ending, and Ellie was alright in the end. 

Keep scrolling below for the fallout. For more stories like this, check out this post about two rebellious 17-year-olds.

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  • 02
    AITA for checking my husband's dashcam footage on his car without his consent
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    I (34F) live with my husband (37M) and daughter (7F). My daughter and I recently went on a short trip out of state while my husband stayed as he had work and was supposed to look after our dog.
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    On the last day of our trip we got a call from my husband who was acting distraught and said that our dog Ellie had run away and that he could not find her. He claimed she just bolted away from him in the park, into some bushes and he could not find her.
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    Our dog is quite small, a mini poodle mix and almost 13 years old, she is still active but it is really unlike her to run away from us and I was suspicious but chose to believe my husband and me and my daughter were in grief but did not want to blame him.
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    When we came back home, he seemed surprisingly ok unlike us. Ever since the p↓ ], my husband started working from home and he has always been annoyed at how much attention we gave Ellie and hated how Ellie begged to sit on our laps and his while he worked.
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    A few days later we got a call from an animal rescue in a neighboring state quite far from us that she had been found. I picked the phone and it was on our landline which we almost never use these days but was the contact on the microchip.
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    I told my husband and he just said "that is great, I am so happy" but it felt kind of blunt and insincere. I said it is strange that she got so far and he responded that someone must have stolen her and then abandoned her. This made little sense to me as to why that would happen.
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    When he was out drinking with his buddies, I copied the videos from his dashcam for the days I was away and saw that he had indeed taken Ellie far out of state,
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    and clearly dropped her in front of his car thrown a frisbee like object into a field, yelled fetch and drove off without her.
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    I was livid and confronted him and he just stupidly muttered how he dropped her there so she could find a farm and have a better life and then the next day got really angry at me for viewing his dashcam and called me an my daughter AHs.
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    G... NTA. Keep your dog and daughter and leave the husband in another state to find another family he'd have a better life with.
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    Deep-Manner-41... • Wow...NTA. You had a gut feeling and were absolutely right. This is horrible. What your husband did is SICK and cruel. He left an innocent animal to d Obviously what you do now is up to you. But if it were me, I would never be able to trust him again. The entire relationship would be ruined.
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    He needs to seek therapy if he is so insecure that he is jealous of a dog. Pathetic excuse for a man.
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    Janellewpg NTA I personally would straight up divorce him... my dogs. are my family. Then he turns around and gets mad and calls you names. That's the same tactic that cheaters use when their significant other finds something. Trying the ol' uno reverso on you.
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    JhihnX NTA. Run. Really, OP, I don't know what else to say. He drove out of state to dump your senior dog. Next time, he's going to hit her with his car. He called you and your seven-year- old daughter a h les.
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    If your dog is still in the home with you, move her to a friend or family's. Like, tonight.
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    Stunning-Evenin... Nta it's animal cruelty and if he called your 7 y/o an ah you need to start filing for divorce
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    W JadedB NTA, keep a copy of the footage as evidence
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    angie50576 Leave his immediately. He abandons a 13 year old dog in a field to fend for itself? Unforgivable.
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